Banking – Internal Audit – Technology Focus – Senior Associate in Edinburgh

Within our Financial Services Risk practice, the Banking Non-Financial Risk & Regulatory Transformation team works with our banking and capital markets clients on their most pressing risk and regulatory programmes. This is an exciting time to join the growing team of over 130 individuals covering retail, wholesale and capital markets. We work across Front Office, Risk, Compliance and Finance functions. Our teams are self-starting, agile and thrive on new and diverse challenges. Our clients are global, as are their biggest challenges. We operate globally, working with the global PwC network to bring the best of PwC to our clients. You will be passionate about client service and the fast‑paced changing nature of the banking sector. We are particularly interested in individuals who embrace tech‑enabled ways of working and are excited about the potential of AI and other transformative technologies. You will take a leading role across a range of projects to build a broad range of expertise and be passionate about delivering value and insights to your clients. You’ll invest time in building your client relationship network and thrive on taking on new challenges in unfamiliar situations.

What Your Days Will Look Like

• Be a part of the team delivering internal audits and support client internal audit teams to deliver internal audits in accordance with their plans.
• You will have a client‑facing role working as part of our delivery teams on client engagements and coaching junior staff.
• Lead across a range of projects to build a broad range of expertise and be passionate about delivering value and insights to you.
• Build client relationship network and thrive on taking on new challenges in unfamiliar situations.
• Audit of IT General Controls, IT Change management, third party risk management (including Cloud and SaaS), Access and Security, resilience, data security and management, and AI governance.
• Support across all areas of the Internal Audit lifecycle, including planning, risk assessments, audit execution, report writing and audit closure, issue validation and committee reporting.
• Advisory Internal Audit work, including input into external quality assessments, quality assurance, and digital transformation.

The Role Is For You If

• Strong risk and control acumen, the ability to connect technology risk to business outcomes, and a willingness to learn and develop technical depth through engagement exposure.
• Experience working within financial services, specifically regarding non‑financial and conduct risk and/or controls either from a consulting, industry or regulatory perspective.
• A proven track record of successfully supporting teams across project work‑streams, stakeholder management and interpersonal skills, and the ability to work proactively under your own initiative.
• Strong oral and written communication skills (i.e. report writing).
• The ability to apply good judgement and to robustly support conclusions reached to more senior level personnel both internally and externally.
• Commercial awareness of retail banking business models, and an understanding of the customer journey/experience in a regulated retail banking environment.
• Experience working on internal or external audits preferred.

Technical Understanding

• IT General Controls (ITGCs): Understanding of access management, change management, and IT operations, and how these underpin financial reporting and regulatory assurance.
• Application and Interface Controls: Ability to assess completeness and accuracy of data across systems, including interfaces and reconciliations.
• Cloud and SaaS: Familiarity with shared responsibility models and vendor assurance mechanisms (e.g. SOC 1 / SOC 2 reports).
• Information Security Fundamentals: Awareness of security frameworks (ISO 27001, NIST, CIS), risk assessment methodologies, and governance processes that support the protection of systems and data.

What You’ll Receive From Us

No matter where you may be in your career or personal life, our benefits are designed to add value and support, recognising and rewarding you fairly for your contributions. We offer a range of benefits including empowered flexibility and a working week split between office, home and client site; private medical cover and 24/7 access to a qualified virtual GP; six volunteering days a year and much more.